The Senior Research Metallurgist provides technical expertise in broad areas of materials and processes in support of all areas of the company.  He/she initiates and conducts new material, process, and product development; works directly with customers and potential customers to resolve technical problems; and assumes leadership of R&D during the absence of the R&D Manager.

Essential Functions

• Become a technical expert and thought leader
  • Initiate and conduct new product development, especially in the areas of new alloy formulation, materials processing, and innovative use of all company’s expertise and capabilities
  • Maintain working knowledge of technological developments in both new and existing markets, and keep upper management aware of potential impact of these changes
  • Support new product development activities of others within the company
• Provide support within our company and to our customers
  • Provide metallurgical support to resolve day-to-day manufacturing problems with particular emphasis on deformation processing of materials
  • Provide technical support and training to the Sales and Marketing departments
  • Work directly with current and prospective customers to select appropriate products, or develop novel solutions if needed

Additional Responsibilities

• Form relationships with customer, industry, and academic thought leaders
• Produce high-quality, high-impact technical communications
  • Prepare well written, professional reports, whitepapers, and publication-quality manuscripts
  • Document new test methods to support improved product quality/ reliability
  • Produce detailed failure analyses for the Company, current, and prospective customers
• Track and report on the status of developmental and support projects
• Perform critical economic analysis of the value of new technologies and equipment
• Benchmark competitive products and technologies
• Supervise activities of member(s) of the R&D Technician Team

The Senior Research Metallurgist provides technical expertise in broad areas of materials and processes in support of all areas of the company.  He/she initiates and conducts new material, process, and product development; works directly with customers and potential customers to resolve technical problems; and assumes leadership of R&D during the absence of the R&D Manager.

Essential Functions

• Become a technical expert and thought leader.
  • Initiate and conduct new product development, especially in the areas of new alloy formulation and materials processing.
  • Maintain working knowledge of technological developments in both new and existing markets, and keep upper management aware of potential impact of these changes
  • Support new product development activities of others within the company
• Provide support within the company and to their customers
  • Provide metallurgical support to resolve day-to-day manufacturing problems with emphasis on deformation processing of materials
  • Provide technical support and training to the Sales and Marketing departments
  • Work directly with current and prospective customers to select appropriate products, or develop novel solutions if needed

Additional Responsibilities

• Form relationships with customer, industry, and academic thought leaders
• Produce high-quality, high-impact technical communications
  • Prepare well written, professional reports, whitepapers, and publication-quality manuscripts
  • Document new test methods to support improved product quality/ reliability
  • Produce detailed failure analyses for the Company, current, and prospective customers
• Track and report on the status of developmental and support projects
• Perform critical economic analysis of the value of new technologies and equipment
• Benchmark competitive products and technologies
• Supervise activities of member(s) of the R&D Technician Team

Job Summary: The Melt Shop Process Engineer is a hands-on position that requires close collaboration with the EAF, LMF, and Caster Managers, Supervisors, and Operators, as well as other departmental and operations management. This position involves quality investigations, continuous improvement, data analysis, and product/process development.

Role and Responsibilities

1. Demonstrate and emphasize safe work practices and behaviors to all employees.
2. Strive to identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, cost, organization, or efficiency.
3. Maintain and verify department production process data.
4. Report on a daily basis Day/WTD/MTD/YTD performance metrics.
5. Develop and maintain automated data collection/analysis systems.
6. Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the production and maintenance workforce.
7. Lead investigations related to missed chemistries, clogging, slab surface, customer claim, or other quality-related issues.
8. Manage the scarfing and slab release processes.
9. Provide technical/analytical support for all CAPEX/product development/improvement initiative trials.
10. Oversee and coordinate the implementation of NPS system requirements.
11. Lead root cause investigations utilizing continuous improvement/PDCA methodology and implement and complete related corrective actions (production process failure analysis).
12. Review and update SOPs to meet safety/quality/cost goals.
13. Conduct periodic quality/safety/SOP audits of all areas Scrap/EAF/LMF/Caster/Scarfing Yard.

JOB SUMMARY:

This position is responsible for providing technical assistance to customers regarding the application of company’s capabilities.  This position also assists the Director of Sales & Marketing in all job functions, which includes supervising the Sales Department in the Director’s absence.  Maintains good customer relations by providing prompt and effective service to customers at all times.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

Develops steel ingot process, sales contract and inquiry review.

Responsible for managing the sales for other business units, as necessary.

Maintains an up-to-date understanding of applicable steelmaking processes.

Responsible for making credit decisions on customers.

Offers technical and operational expertise to customers.

Travel is required, typically 25% of the time to customers for sales calls or in response to technical service inquiries, as needed.

Assists sales staff in technical inquiries and scheduling.

Coordinates and oversees customers’ orders and deliveries.

Responsible for coordinating the investigation to conclusion and resolution of customer claims in conjunction with Metallurgy.